From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:13:04 +0200 Message-ID: <200903311713.05451.oliver@neukum.org> References: <49d00512.XAF19LdpY1dlK6+U%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200903310939.09690.oliver@neukum.org> <49D22EFC.1020709@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Larry Finger Return-path: Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:49588 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751181AbZCaPJF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:09:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D22EFC.1020709@lwfinger.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Dienstag 31 M=E4rz 2009 16:55:56 schrieb Larry Finger: > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Very good. > > > >> (X server over the network), the interface stalled with no logged > >> messages. > > > > Do you get something with sysrq-t ? > > No. The rest of the system was still functioning; however, the driver > needed to be unloaded and reloaded before continuing. There were no l= og > entries until the driver was unloaded. This sounds like kaweth_tx_timeout() should have been called. Did you enable enough logging to see dev_warn(&net->dev, "%s: Tx timed out. Resetting.\n", net->name); Regards Oliver